Chair of Macroeconomics
Chair of Macroeconomics

Franz Prante

Contact

Office

Thüringer Weg 7, Raum 308

Phone

0371 / 531 - 39 472

Fax

0371 / 531 - 839 472

E-Mail

Office Hours

By appointment

Career

Research

  • Energy Prices and Monetary Policy - Project by the Future Department Macrofinance Institute

Publications

Books

  • Introduction to Macroeconomics: Pluralistic and Interactive, Online Book, 2020 (with A. Bramucci, E. Hein and A. Truger).
  • The German Financial System and the Financial and Economic Crisis, Financial and Monetary Policy Studies, Vol. 45, Springer, 2017 (with D. Detzer, N. Dodig, T. Evans, E. Hein, H. Herr).

Journal articles

  • Varieties and interdependencies of demand and growth regimes in finance-dominated capitalism, Review of Keynesian Economics, 10(2), 264-290 (with A. Bramucci and E. Hein).
  • Decades of tight fiscal policy have left the health care system in Italy ill-prepared to fight the COVID-19 outbreak. Intereconomics, 2020, 55, 147–152 (with A. Bramucci and A. Truger).
  • Pluralist macroeconomics – an interactive simulator, International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 2020, 11 (1), 55–78 (with A. Bramucci, E. Hein and A. Truger).
  • Macroeconomic effects of personal and functional income inequality: theory and empirical evidence for the US and Germany, Panoeconomicus, 65(3), 2018, pp. 289-318.

Book contibutions

  • Functional distribution and wage inequality in recent Kaleckian growth models, in: Bougrine, H., Rochon, L.-P. (eds.), Economic Growth and Macroeconomic Stabilization Policies in Post-Keynesian Economics, Essays in Honour of Marc Lavoie and Mario Seccareccia, Book Two, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020, 33-49 (with E. Hein).
  • Interaktive Makroökonomik – ein pluraler Simulator, in: Fridrich, C., Hedtke, R., Ötsch, W.O. (eds.), Grenzen überschreiten, Pluralismus wagen – Perspektiven sozioökonomischer Hochschullehre, Wiesbaden: Springer, 2020, 25-49 (with A. Bramucci, E. Hein and A. Truger).

Unpuplished working papers

  • Financialisation and the potentials for a progressive equality-, sustainability- and domestic demand-led regime, IPE Working Paper, No. 192/2022 (with A. Bramucci and E. Hein).
  • Income distribution and the multiplier - an exploration of non-linear distribution effects in linear Kaleckian distribution and growth models, IPE Working Paper, No. 121/2019.

Other

  • Interaktiver Simulator: Welche drastischen Veränderungen nötig wären, um das 1,5-Grad-Ziel noch zu erreichen, Makronom, 22.3.2022 (with T. van Treeck).
  • CO2-Emissionen und Wirtschaftswachstum: Szenarien aus dem Online-Tool „Decoupling or degrowth?“, ifsoblog, 24.2.2022 (with T. van Treeck).
  • Austerität, das italienische Gesundheitssystem und die Corona-Krise, WISO Diskurs, 03/2021, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Abteilung Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik (with A. Bramucci and A. Truger).
  • Covid 19: Zahlt Italiens Bevölkerung den Preis für die Sparpolitik?, Makronom, 29.4.2020 (with A. Bramucci and A. Truger).
  • Modelltheoretische Grundlagen wirtschaftspolitischer Kontroversen: eine computergestützte Aufbereitung, FGW Impuls Neues Ökonomisches Denken 14, 2019, Düsseldorf: Forschungsinstitut für gesellschaftliche Weiterentwicklung (with A. Bramucci, E. Hein and A. Truger).
  • Makroökomischer Simulator: Wirtschaftspolitik interaktiv und plural, Makronom, 11.3.2019 (with A. Bramucci, E. Hein and A. Truger).
  • Post-Keynesian Economics, Orientation text at Exploring Economics, 18.12.2016 (with A. Aboobaker, K. Köhler and R. Tarne).

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